Vol. 7 (08) pp. 30-32 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/9469

PULMONARY NOCARDIOSIS CONCOMITANT INFECTION WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT.

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Abstract

Till date we have seen a very few literature reporting pulmonary nocardiosis concomitant infection with mycobacterium tuberculosis. We present a 74 year old case in which a patient with long segment myelitis, who was on long term steroids on thorough work up for PUO was found to have mycobacterium tuberculosis co-infected with nocardiosis. Physiological doses of oral steroids recommended for long segment myelitis might be the predisposing factor for opportunistic infection of nocardiosis in patient with MTB.

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Manav Manchanda, Sunil Nagar, Priyadarshi Jitendra kumar, Manu Shangle, Uma Rani and Shilpa Gupta. (2019); PULMONARY NOCARDIOSIS CONCOMITANT INFECTION WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS IN IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT., Int. J. of Adv. Res., 7 (08), 30-32, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/9469

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dr sunil nagar

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